Originally Posted by merlight
I'm going to play the Grammar Nazi here, because everyone who used the word "functional" (except XanDDemoX and Lodur) actually meant "procedural". Functional programming is a whole different world. Read the article XanDDemoX posted if you're interested, although it doesn't relate to the previous discussion  And I'm not sure it will make any sense to you if you're not familiar with functional programming to begin with. |
Yes. I mean Functional as in languages such as: Lisp, ML, Clojure, Racket, scala, etc..; and Procedural as in languages such as: C, Basic, Pascal, etc...; and OO as in: C++, Java, Ruby, etc..